Media Mentions for Fully Loaded Tea - click on image for full article

"Teapreneurs brew up a business in blends", The Georgia Straight, March 5, 2008

BE CAREFUL WHO you reject. Think of the U.K. publishers who said no to a certain author when she tried to sell them her tale about a boy wizard called Harry. Closer to home, a few design firms should be kicking themselves for not returning calls from Katya Popoff and Olga Lenova after meeting them in person. Could it be because the sisters are only 24 and 21, respectively? But—happy-ending alert—Subplot Design took on the project, and the result is smart packaging that accurately reflects everything, from corporate attitude to actual product, that makes up the Fully Loaded Tea company...

"From Tri-Cities teens to tea queens", Tri-Cities Business Journal, February 2008Despite having a rich history, including playing a major role in unleashing the American Revolution, tea has been perceived over the past 30 years as coffee's quieter, less exciting sibling. Two sisters are making bold strides to change all that. Olga Lenova and Katya Popoff, who spent their teenage years in Coquitlam, are the driving forces behind Fully Loaded Tea, which is and isn't what it sounds like. Their original products have burst onto the beverage scene in the past year after numerous years of studying and testing various combinations...

"Tea time", Toronto Star, September 4, 2009A new Canadian company seems to have found the right stuff with its Fully Loaded Tea. Sisters Katya Popoff and Olga Lenova create blends using the dried berries they put in their tea growing up in Siberia, where they were born. Now Toronto residents, they've tapped into the health market by using vitamin and antioxidant-rich berries, matching them with black, green or white tea or making straight herbal blends. The teas and berries are imported, then blended and packed in Quebec. The two-year-old company already has distribution across North America. The Metro grocery chain will start carrying the brand next month. "September is the start of tea season, so it's an exciting time right now," says Popoff, 25. For more information, visit fullyloadedtea.com. Barbara Turnbull.

"Tea for ambition of two", National Post, September 8, 2008Katya Popoff and Olga Lenova are the founders of Vancouver based FullyLoadedTea (www.fullyloadedtea.com), which makes specialty fruit tea. Ms. Popoff tells the Financial Post what motivated her and her sister to become entrepreneurs. Adventure: "In the early 1990s, the Soviet Union was disintegrating. Our parents were engineers working in Siberia and decided it was best to immigrate to Canada. I was 11 years old and Olga was eight. Although we knew no one here, Vancouver was warmer than Siberia." Russian liquid soul: "Olga and I wanted to start our own company. We decided to create teas with fruits and berries added, like the ones we drank in Siberia."Serious work: "Throughout 2006, we researched the industry. By March 2007, we were ready to exhibit at trade shows in Los Angeles and Vancouver where our specialty tea, with its distinct packaging, got noticed."....